I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give... - Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
"Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes."
"And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once."
"I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go."
"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."
"I'd rather die my way than live yours."